²³ For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

²² You^[a] worship what you^[b] do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.^(A)

Paul Reproves the Galatians

⁸ Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.^{(A) 9} Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles?^[a] How can you want to be enslaved to them again?^(B)

³ And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.^(A)

²⁵ “Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me.^(A)